Trump's Maga insurrectionists were perverse US civil war re-enactors | Sidney Blumenthal
by Sidney Blumenthal from US news | The Guardian on (#5CKNR)
The warped history the Trump mob thought it was conjuring was actually just a costume drama of militant ignorance
Big protest in DC on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!" Donald Trump tweeted on December 19, a week after his would-be Brown Shirt followers rioted in the streets of Washington to protest the stolen" election. When Der Tag - the climactic day of battle arrived - Trump assembled his true believers on the South Ellipse at the White House for a Save America" rally, waving them up Pennsylvania Avenue as his army to nullify the congressional certification of electoral college votes in the presidential election.
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